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December 2012

December 20, 2012

You can’t stop the reign of guns and patriarchy without talking about religion

Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...

November 2012

November 06, 2012

I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)

Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product

In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Ann Romney’s Gendered Martyrdom: “Women and Children First”?

Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

Gloating and Slander: Michael Pearl, Nancy Ann Wilson, and Christian Fundamentalist Responses to Criticism

Femina has been lighting up like a Christmas tree since The Gospel Coalition blog post that...

July 19, 2012

Good idea, bad idea.

Anybody remember these? A couple of people apparently found my blog using the following google...

July 19, 2012

Doug Wilson’s Daughters Defend Him by Attacking Rachel Held Evans

Them's Fightin' Words and Daddy Issues are the responses of Bekah and Rachel (Lizzie), daughters of Doug...

July 08, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 06, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 06, 2012

Wifely Submission and Honoring, Cherishing and Loving Your Wife as Your Own Body

Leaders of the Christian Patriarchy Movement and their disciples (minor pastors who covet their attention)...

July 05, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

June 2012

June 14, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Three: Finding Unconditional Love Outside the Church

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

June 10, 2012

Rachel Held Evans: Is Patriarchy Really God’s Dream for the World?

Rachel Held Evans has just followed up the discussion linked in my last post with the literary...

June 09, 2012

Christian Patriarchy and Complementarianism: “Separate But Equal” Puts on Lipstick

Complementarianism is a lie. Yeah. It's fake. It doesn't exist. What does exist is patriarchy in...

June 07, 2012

New Spiritual Abuse Survivor Network at No Longer Quivering

Over the past year, survivors of spiritual abuse have been slowly connecting with one another,...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Quick Hits: Modesty, LGBTQ, and “Honoring” Women

A North Carolina pastor's anti-gay tirade has gone viral on youtube. He proposes sending all...

May 20, 2012

Libby Anne: Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership

(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Bedroom Submission, Birth Control and Tokophobia

Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...

April 10, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line

My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...

April 05, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Mama’s Boy and the Other Woman

I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...

April 04, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Junior Wife

Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Why I Don’t Use Bible Verses as Evidence

It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....

February 2012

February 06, 2012

(In)voluntary Submission

I've noticed a lot of comments on No Longer Quivering recently claiming that there's a...

September 2011

September 21, 2011

Throwing out the moral GPS

This is cross-posted at No Longer Quivering. Growing up in fundamentalism was like living with...

August 2011

August 28, 2011

Overgrowth: the Story of a Big Marigold

My garden has been growing unchecked for at least a month while I tended to...

May 2011

May 22, 2011

Reading Recommendation: A Logical Refutation of Branham’s Message

I received an email today from Nathan Rivera, a former believer who was born and...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn…

What makes people believe the Message? What makes them keep believing even when it's become...

March 2011

March 08, 2011

When Dreams Become Promises

This post is forthcoming on No Longer Quivering. As followers of God’s final prophet and...

October 2010

October 28, 2010

Study time! Marriage, submission, and control in the Message

Let's take a walk down Message theology lane. Today's text is a relatively recent sermon...

October 24, 2010

Special Topic: Rejoice Ministries and the “D” word

Note: This message is edited and cross-posted from a thread on the NLQ Forums. After...

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